Margaret Wolf Freivogel – 2016
Margaret Wolf Freivogel wore many hats during her journalism career. At the Post-Dispatch, she was a reporter, Washington correspondent, assistant managing editor and assistant chief of the paper’s Washington Bureau. She left the Post in 2005 and in 2008 helped establish The St. Louis Beacon, one of the nation’s first digital non-profit newsrooms. And through a merger in 2013, Margie became editor of St. Louis Public Radio, from which she retired in 2016. Among her professional recognitions, she received the National Press Club Washington Correspondent’s Award, the Missouri School of Journalism Honor Medal and the American Bar Association Gavel Award.